Retro nostalgia and why my new website looks like Window 9x (2019)

Re:Retro nostalgia and why my new website looks like Window ... by satysin on Saturday April 17, 2021 @05:38PM (#26847665)

Oh how I wish I could do this on macOS. Yes there is a "reduce motion" setting but there is no remove motion setting and a whole bunch of animations remain most notably minimize/maximize of windows (I can at least change from the default Genie effect to Scale which is faster), opening an application it still "zooms" into the screen, etc.

I would happily pay for a third party app to nuke every single damn animation if I could but Apple make it impossible (or at least that is what is claimed).

And of course this doesn't even touch on how laggy resizing many applications on macOS is (yes even on the shiny new M1 models). The Microsoft Office suite, Chrome and a whole bunch of other applications are horrible when resizing. It isn't often an issue with Apple's applications for what that's worth.

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Re:Retro nostalgia and why my new website looks like Window ... by anthk on Saturday April 17, 2021 @06:09PM (#26847859)

Open a Terminal. Then, copy and paste these contents:

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/lexrus/081fa687d8b2475d33...

Also, Tinker Tool in OSX did that, IDK it it's still working.

https://www.bresink.com/osx/0TinkerTool/details.html

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Re:Retro nostalgia and why my new website looks like Window ... by satysin on Saturday April 17, 2021 @06:42PM (#26848078)

Oh I know every single tweak out there, sadly many no longer work in Big Sur. But even before that you have not been able to fully disable every animation in macOS for as long as I can remember.

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Re:Retro nostalgia and why my new website looks like Window ... by anthk on Saturday April 17, 2021 @07:11PM (#26848252)

Try Tinker tool, it may be close.

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Re:Retro nostalgia and why my new website looks like Window ... by Dort on Saturday April 17, 2021 @08:26PM (#26848687)

Windows XP and perhaps newer versions of Windows included a setting to only redraw a window after the user has finished moving/resizing. You would instead see an outline of the new window position/size. The same applied to (un)minimizing. I don’t know about such a setting in MacOS.

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Re:Retro nostalgia and why my new website looks like Window ... by satysin on Sunday April 18, 2021 @07:13AM (#26851506)

Even in Windows 10 you can still go to the "old style" (Windows 2000 days) settings screen and adjust for "best performance" which disables close to every UI enhancement Windows supports. Drop shadows on windows and desktop icons, drawing windows on resize (as you mentioned), taskbar animations, scrollbar animations and even small visual effects such as the subtle animations when you mouse over a control in a window.

Obviously not many people wish to disable everything but having the option to do so is great and something I wish macOS would let me do as there is way too much motion in macOS. Sure it was cute 15 years ago when the idea of a beautiful and fluid UI was impressive but in 2021 they annoy me or worse they make the whole system look crap when, for some reason, the animations lag.

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